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Post by alyceavary on Nov 28, 2012 23:51:20 GMT -5
Hopefully this is the right area. My mom said something in passing about we need to take my daughter to a psychic. Yep, the Christian who can't understand my Wiccan/Pagan ways believes in psychics. My daughter has a habit of waking up in the middle of the night, running back and forth across her bed and just flustered. Usually talking some kind of nonsense about not wanting to do something. It takes a few minutes to calm her back to sleep, and once she woke up and I told her I was there and everything was okay and her reply was: "How do I know it's really you?"
I have asked her in the past about seeing things (not saying ghosts on purpose), and even saying even if she thought they were imaginary. And THAT has caused her to start talking non-stop about her imaginary friends (who are all fairies). I normally would dismiss it because the names she uses for these fairies come from books or tv shows. My mom seems to think that she is seeing angels but calling them fairies because they are people with wings. I don't necessarily believe in angels, I find that more of a Christian creation.
Here's my question: How do I find a REPUTABLE psychic? I am VERY fearful of running into a scam artist because I know that they are out there and take advantage of naive people like me. I have a touch of psychic ability, but I don't see people, I feel emotions and I read people. So my other option would be how to determine exactly what's going on, if these are just normal childhood "nightmares" (because her mind can't shut off, even while sleeping) or if she really is seeing fairies/ghosts/"angels"/etc.
I know that there are people here more knowledgeable than I and I am asking for guidance and suggestions. And yes, I know to rule out the mundane before I go to the supernatural. I'm not THAT new on this path....lol
Thanks in advance!!
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Post by NiNjA on Nov 29, 2012 3:02:08 GMT -5
I would start with counceling. No scams there. I think it's just a kid thing, kids do weird stuff sometimes. I had an imaginary friend named Peter until I was 4. I remember every detail of his face. I would sleep walk and stuff too. I don't know what her diet is like, but that does effect kids. You know your child best, follow your gut. Good luck.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2012 9:13:18 GMT -5
I would check with your local metaphysical store. I know that the one I worked at in Florida kept a list of people with a variety of talents to suggest to customers in need. We didn't exactly "screen" people, but provided a bit of protection for both parties.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2012 9:20:40 GMT -5
Aside from that, it really sounds like your daughter is a sleepwalker. You may want to check with your pediatrician. I sleepwalk, now that I'm older it's only in times of great stress or emotion but I still do it. The best way I can explain it is I'm living my dream up and about. I've actually driven in my sleep. My kids hide my car keys every night and we have bells on every door. In any event, what you've described is what my mother told me I used to do when I was a child. I didn't actually start leaving my room until I was about 6 or so. Until then, I would be up, first in my crib, then in my bed or room running around like a chicken with it's head cut off. Sometimes screaming or yelling. Sometimes I would sit and just carry on a conversation with people only I could see. My mother took me to I don't know how many Doctors when I was a kid. Finally my grandmothers told my mom the best thing she could do is just make sure I didn't hurt myself. I was communing with something only I could see. Every time she woke me up, it left my "issue" unresolved. So they let me do my thing. When I was in high school, my mom came down at about 3:00 in the morning. I had cooked breakfast for myself and whoever I was dreaming of and was sitting at the table, showered, dressed with full make up, eating breakfast and talking to an empty chair with a full plate in front of it as if my life depended on it. I actually thought I had grown out of it until about 10 years ago when I started doing it again. That was when I drove. I drove to the beach and ate a piece of cheesecake and came home. I think. I woke up the next morning to my mother bitching to high heaven about sand all over the floor. I got up laughing saying I had dreamed I'd eaten cheesecake at the beach. She looked down at my feet covered in sand and we had a nice little freakout. That was the start of Khara's keys being hidden every night and bells put on all the doors. I've never gotten hurt, nor hurt anyone, so it isn't a big thing. I did one time shave the dog, well half the dog, when I was about 10. Another time I took all the silverware and hung it on the ficas tree mom had in the living room. Dad found me downstairs singing christmas carols and tying froks to the tree. It makes for some seriously funny stories.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2012 10:35:49 GMT -5
Sleepwalking seems to be partially genetically driven. My Dad used to do it, as did my sister, till she was around 11 and my brother, who, I think, still walks. I kind of get the sense that it is a function of stages of brain development, or in the case of my dad, de-development {he was a lifelong alcoholic that destroyed his brain and health with that poisonous crap}. Times of stress, even good stress, seem to make people digress to sleep walking also. Puberty, menses and physiological stress seems to be a trigger also. I would say let her finish the "dream", make sure you put locks high up on all the doors leading outside, {my sister tried to leave one night when she was about 4, the dog woke us up barking at her}, maybe if she works through whatever it is her brain is dealing with it will fade a bit, till the next "crisis".
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Post by alyceavary on Nov 29, 2012 17:06:49 GMT -5
She's 7 and she talks in her sleep. When she is in one of these episodes, I don't really wake her up, I just hold her and calm her like when she was a baby. She has a tendency to sit up while still asleep and I'll say her name and ask what's wrong and her reply is usually "nothing" or to just look for her blanket and lay back down. Or I'll tell her to go back to sleep and she'll lay back down. The running doesn't usually happen unless I'm out of the room when she sits up or it's just sudden. Unfortunately, she still sleeps in a crib (partially because I'm lazy and won't change it.....but that's become a good thing with the way she rolls around at night), but it's a convertible crib, so it can eventually go to a full-sized bed. She has said that she's glad it has the bars, because she wouldn't want to fall out of bed and get hurt. In fact, when we go on trips, she ad I will often share a bed and I end up almost kicked out of bed because of her moving around. LOL
She drew a picture of one of her fairy friends, and it looks like a fairy to me, not an angel like my mom suggested. The wings aren't the sharp, pointy ones that Disney has created, but they are pink. LOL
We don't have any metaphysical shops here....Bible Belt with almost a church on every corner.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2012 20:16:48 GMT -5
My brother would panic and run if he woke up during a walk. We learned real quick to just steer him back to bed rather than try to wake him. It seemed to make the walk end for the night if one of us talked to him and got him back to wherever he went to sleep at. I wonder if she is partially waking up and it's causing the 'panic running".
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Post by alyceavary on Nov 29, 2012 20:35:06 GMT -5
That's what I think, she's in between sleep and awake. She'll talk, but it won't make sense and the goes back to sleep pretty easily. I've just often wondered what she sees since I know that kids are more tuned in than adults. I don't see things, I feel them or hear them.
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